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Ticket to Mars

escape destruction

Earth is about to be destroyed and only a few people will be able to get hold of a ticket to escape the destruction. You are a member of a mega conglomeration and must meet secret objectives.

You begin with a deck of five action cards; six objective cards each for Pairs, Occupancy and Character are stacked face-down and your scoring marker begins at the Zero position.

You begin by drawing one card from each of the three objective stacks. In a round, you select one of your action cards in hand, resolve it and then discard it. The options are: Get on Board - you place a crew tile on a free spot in any of the space ships on the board (2x in your deck); Get off - Remove a crew tile  from a space ship on the board and put the tile into stock; Move - Take a crew tile off one of the space ships and put it into a free spot in another space ship; Countdown - Move the Countdown Marker by one step and take all your used action cards back up in hand.

When the Countdown Marker arrives at Zero, the round ends and you score victory points for completed objectives. Pairs: For each pair depicted on the card that is in the same ship; Occupancy: Correct number of passengers in a ship according to the card, can be more children than adults or vice versa; Character: For each crew tile in a space ship corresponding to the crew members depicted on the card. After a pre-selected number of rounds, you win with most points.

Easy to learn, easy to play, nice design ... but the topic does not really come across well, the end of the game is not clearly stated and nice ideas in the mechanics are not fully developed.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Eugeni Castaño

Artist: Siscu Bellido

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: GDM Games 2017

Web: www.gdmgames.com

Genre: Placement, cards

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Rules partly unclear

Nice design

Easy to learn

Hard to plan

Compares to:

Placement with parameters

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0